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Edwin Lord Weeks

Paintings

A Royal Procession

An Open-Air Restaurant, Lahore

Man in Armour

Royal Elephant

The Moorish Bazaar

Two Arabs Reading in a Courtyard

A Rajah Of Jodhpur

Along The Ghats Mathura

Arrival Of Prince Humbert The Rajah At The Palace Of Amber

Before A Mosque

Craftsman Selling Cases By A Teak Wood Building Ahmedabad

Departure For The Hunt

Entering The Mosque

Feeding The Sacred Pigeons Jaipur

Festival At Fatehpur Sikri

Gate Of The Fortress At Agra India

Mogul And His Court Returning From The Great Mosque At Delhi India

Indian Prince And Parade Ceremony

Indian Prince Palace Of Agra

Leaving For The Hunt

Leaving For The Hunt At Gwalior

A Court in The Alhambra in the Time of the Moors

A Marketplace In Ispahan

A Persian Cafe

Along The Nile

An Indian Gharry

An Indian Hunting Party

Arrival of a Caravan Outside The City of Morocco

At The River Crossing

Blacksmith Shop at Tangiers

Courtyard in Morocco

Gate of Shehal Morocco

Girl in a Moorish Courtyard

Hindu Merchants

Indian Barbers Saharanpore

Edwin Lord Weeks (1849 – 1903), American artist, was born at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1849. He was a pupil of Léon Bonnat and of Jean-Léon Gérôme, at Paris. He made many voyages to the East, and was distinguished as a painter of oriental scenes.

Weeks' parents were affluent spice and tea merchants from Newton, a suburb of Boston and as such they were able to accept, probably encourage, and certainly finance their son's youthful interest in painting and travelling. As a young man Edwin Lord Weeks visited the Florida Keys to draw and also travelled to Surinam in South America. His earliest known paintings date from 1867 when Edwin Lord Weeks was eighteen years old, although it is not until his Landscape with Blue Heron, dated 1871 and painted in the Everglades, that Edwin Lord Weeks started to exhibit a dexterity of technique and eye for composition - presumably having taken professional tuition.[1]

In 1895 he wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and two years later he published Episodes of Mountaineering. He died in November 1903. He was a member of the Légion d'honneur, France, an officer of the Order of St. Michael, Germany, and a member of the Secession, Munich.

References

* Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Weeks, Edwin Lord". Encyclopædia Britannica (Eleventh ed.). Cambridge University Press.
* Template:Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Article "Hindoo and Moslem" Oct 1895

Cited

1. ^ Edwin Lord Weeks oil painting and biography

* Edwin Lord Weeks paintings & biography

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